Your body already knows what your mind won’t admit.
A 2-minute quiz that maps where you hold stress in your body — and why.
Felti helps you read the emotional pattern that may sit behind your physical tension - and gives you one somatic practice to help release it, the moment it hits.
Grounded in peer-reviewed work on emotion and the body - from Aalto University’s emotion-mapping (PNAS, 2014) to research on interoception.
Your jaw holds what your words won’t say.
You’ve been told it’s ‘just stress.’
You feel it - the jaw that won’t unclench, the shoulders that live up by your ears, the stomach that knots before a hard conversation. You’ve seen the doctors. ‘Everything’s normal,’ they say. Your body carries it anyway.
You’re not broken. No one ever taught you to read what your body is saying.
Your body, decoded in three layers.
See where you hold it
Tap where the tension lives. Felti names a likely emotional pattern underneath - a reflection, not a diagnosis. A clenched jaw isn’t random: for many people it’s held-back frustration and the need for control.
Find the pattern
Felti connects the dots over time: ‘the back pain shows up after most work conflicts.’ The kind of pattern that’s easy to miss in the moment, but obvious once it’s laid out for you.
Release it in the moment
Not on a schedule - when it hits. Chest tight after a hard call? A four-minute grounding practice, matched to exactly that.
Two minutes in, one screen that finally makes sense.
Felti hands you your body archetype - where you store tension, the emotion that may sit behind it, and a practice to help release it. Each archetype is a lens for self-reflection, not a diagnosis. Tap a zone to explore all five.
The Clencher
You hold it in your jaw.
Held-back anger and the need for control - kept where your words don’t go.
What’s science - and what’s our interpretation.
The link between emotions and the body is well studied. How we map it to five archetypes is our own lens for self-reflection - not a medical claim. Here’s exactly where that line is.
Bodily maps of emotion
Nummenmaa et al. · PNAS, 2014701 people from Finland, Sweden and Taiwan colored in where they felt sensations change for each emotion - and the maps came out strikingly consistent across the cultures studied. Anger and happiness lit up the arms and upper body; sadness drained sensation from the limbs.
Interoception
Critchley & Garfinkel · review, 2017Your brain builds emotional feelings partly from internal body signals - heartbeat, breath, gut. This ‘sensing from the inside,’ called interoception, is closely tied to how you feel and steady yourself.
Stress lives in your muscles
Lundberg et al. · 1999Psychological stress measurably raises muscle tension - including in the neck and shoulders. It’s one of the clearest, most direct links between what you feel and where your body holds it.
Questions, answered.
Is this therapy or medical advice?
No. Felti is an educational wellness tool - it helps you notice patterns, not diagnose conditions. It doesn’t replace a therapist or doctor.
Is it actually backed by science?
The science is about the link between emotions and the body - and that’s well studied (e.g. Nummenmaa’s bodily-sensation maps in PNAS, 2014, and research on interoception). Felti’s five body archetypes are our own lens for self-reflection, not a clinically validated test. Our Methodology page lays out exactly where the research ends and our interpretation begins.
How long does the quiz take?
About two minutes. There’s no sign-up to start.
What do I get at the end?
Your body archetype, the emotional pattern that may sit behind your most-held tension, and one somatic practice matched to it.
What happens to my data?
We only use your email to send your profile and any updates you opt into. We never sell your data. See our Privacy Policy for the details.
Your tension has a pattern. Let’s find it.
Take the two-minute quiz and get your body profile - plus one somatic practice matched to your pattern.
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